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<blockquote data-quote="AllStressedOut" data-source="post: 64285" data-attributes="member: 3837"><p>Okay, now that I'm off the schedule for just a few minutes why husband takes over, let me elaborate. Like I mentioned in the first post, youngest difficult child tends to beat to his own drum in cards. So even though playing cards with him is extremely frustrating to the rest of us, I think the only way he'll learn is if I continue to play with him and teach him the correct way. So today we played a modified form of gin. Instead of being able to accrue runs and books, he was only allowed to collect runs. Since in our game lastnight books weren't a problem, I wanted to see if he could collect runs correctly. So we played gin during his parent time today. He didn't ever win, but he was collecting cards in the same suit. We are still working on getting them to be cards in a row though, but I think hes figuring it out. With my oldest difficult child holding a conversation can be extremely frustrating, especially for kids his age. He doesn't have any friends. So what I'm trying to do with him during his parent time is hold a conversation and then in our last 5 minutes, have him recall the conversation from beginning to middle to end. He had a harder time doing it today than yesterday, but our conversation was more complex today. He did finally get it after about 15 minutes or so though. My goal is to work with the boys on things they have difficulties in. I may eventually tackle warmup type exercises with my youngest difficult child, but for now I'm steering clear of those. He had such a meltdown the other day I want to think on this for a bit and try to figure out the least threatening way to attempt them again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AllStressedOut, post: 64285, member: 3837"] Okay, now that I'm off the schedule for just a few minutes why husband takes over, let me elaborate. Like I mentioned in the first post, youngest difficult child tends to beat to his own drum in cards. So even though playing cards with him is extremely frustrating to the rest of us, I think the only way he'll learn is if I continue to play with him and teach him the correct way. So today we played a modified form of gin. Instead of being able to accrue runs and books, he was only allowed to collect runs. Since in our game lastnight books weren't a problem, I wanted to see if he could collect runs correctly. So we played gin during his parent time today. He didn't ever win, but he was collecting cards in the same suit. We are still working on getting them to be cards in a row though, but I think hes figuring it out. With my oldest difficult child holding a conversation can be extremely frustrating, especially for kids his age. He doesn't have any friends. So what I'm trying to do with him during his parent time is hold a conversation and then in our last 5 minutes, have him recall the conversation from beginning to middle to end. He had a harder time doing it today than yesterday, but our conversation was more complex today. He did finally get it after about 15 minutes or so though. My goal is to work with the boys on things they have difficulties in. I may eventually tackle warmup type exercises with my youngest difficult child, but for now I'm steering clear of those. He had such a meltdown the other day I want to think on this for a bit and try to figure out the least threatening way to attempt them again. [/QUOTE]
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